Exhibition. Fönstret
Karl Larsson: French Clouds
20241025 - 20241114
French Clouds comprises 145 clouds photographed by Karl Larsson during an art residency at Cité des Arts in Paris. These have been printed on a thermal printer (receipt printer) and then woven together into a large work. At Centrum för fotografi, he creates a new site-specific weave in our exhibition space, Fönstret.
During his residency at Cité des Arts, Karl worked based on the composer Erik Satie, whose works have been described as monotonous repetitions. Clouds may not be repetition, but they are a recurring phenomenon that has been photographed here through monotonous work.
Karl works with questions surrounding both the cloud as a form and what its fleeting existence has to teach us. As the work is printed with a receipt printer, the work also has a limited durability. This is reminiscent of the fleeting nature of clouds and memory, both of which change over time and then disappear.
The work also relates to our time, where structures and hierarchies govern our lives, which also affects art. With this impermanent and unsaleable work, he pushes the boundaries of what a photograph can be, and challenges the structures that govern us.
The work French Clouds is also available in a self-published book of the same name.
Karl Larsson is an artist based in Gothenburg, and has a master’s degree in fine art from Central Saint Martins in London, UK. He works with various artistic expressions with a focus on interpersonal encounters. Aesthetics and form are subservient to the processes, his work is done in a “Do It Yourself” spirit, and has been shown at zine festivals and libraries, as well as at more established institutions such as PerfromIstanbul.
Vernissage talk will be held on Friday, October 25 at 1 PM on Centrum för fotografi’s Instagram.
